BUSHMAN INJURED
TREE'S SUDDEN FALL SAW ENTERS LEFT LEG [by tklegrafh—OWN correspondent] BLENHEIM, Friday Severe injuries to his left leg were suffered by Mr. G. Flower, of Canvastown, when he was engaged in bushfelling on the property of his father, Mr. F. Flower, at Wakamarina yesterday. ]n company with Mr. Hart, another bushman, Mr. G. Flower was felling trees at a place called Big Horse Creek at the end of the Wakamarina Road. The usual procedure of chopping one side of the base of a tree and then sawing the other until the tree began to sway was adopted. While Mr. Flower was walking away from a tree so treated, with the saw on his back, the tree suddenly split, a piece of timber catching the saw and driving it deep into his thigh. His companion rendered every possible assistance and then hurried back over a distance of a mile or so to his residence at Deep Creek and procured his car and a gang of men. Mr. Flower had to be carried some distance on a stretcher before ho could bo placed in the car. AY hen this was done Mr. Hart drove with all haste to Blenheim, where the injured man was admitted to the Wairau Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23127, 27 August 1938, Page 12
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